Michael Haas

Elysium Between Two Continents, the NYC-based nonprofit organization fighting anti-Semitism through the means of art and academic dialogue, will present a three-day music festival entitled Innovators in Exile: 100 Years of the International Society for New Music.

Elysium Between Two Continents, the NYC-based nonprofit organization fighting anti-Semitism through the means of art and academic dialogue, will present a three-day music festival entitled Innovators in Exile: 100 Years of the International Society for New Music.

The North/South Chamber Orchestra under the direction Max Lifchitz kicks off its 42nd season on Tuesday January 11, 2022, with an event highlighting vocal and instrumental music by Robert Martin.

Artistic Director of Collingwood Summer Music Festival Daniel Vnukowski will host Summer Solstice Series this month. The four-part presentation will include Celebrating Robert Burns with R.H. Thomson and Mr. Vnukowski (June 16, 7 p.m. EDT) and more.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra has announced a springtime series of live  chamber music concerts taking place on successive Thursdays in May at 6pm on the beautiful grounds of Morven Museum & Garden.

Kafka’s Shorts performed online by Open Stage is a show that engages the mind, and those who thrive on the strange and thought-provoking may want to give this show multiple views.

Open Stage will begin streaming an staged production of Kafka’s Shorts on January 8, continuing the theatre’s unconventional 35th season, wherein the staff has planned and produced staged performances that are filmed and may be streamed on TVs, computers and smart devices.

My Song For You – Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura was inaugurated on October 20th with a simulcast online ceremony hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York led by Director Michael Haider, and the University of Music and Performance in Vienna, or MDW.

Pianist Daniel Vnukowski has reached over half a million viewers with his high-definition, livestreamed performances since the start of the pandemic earlier this year. On Tuesday, December 15th at 7pm PST, he performs a virtual fundraising recital in support of the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund (sweetrelief.org) to assist those musicians urgently affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

The 30th anniversary season of the Bard Music Festival a?" an exploration of a?oeKorngold and His Worlda?? a?" opens this Friday, August 9, with Weekend One: Korngold and Vienna. The first of the weekend's six themed concerts, Program One: a?oeErich Wolfgang Korngold: From Viennese Prodigy to Hollywood Master,a?? offers a broad overview of the composer's multi-faceted career.

Ute Lemper talks to BroadwayWorld UK about her role in Rendezvous with Marlene, her 'personal homage to that great lady', at the Arcola Theatre

Following solo and concerto performances at Queens College's Karol Rathaus Festival last month, Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski (vnoo-koff'-skee) further champions the music of this long-neglected Galician-Jewish composer with the launch of a recording cycle of Karol Rathaus's complete works for solo piano. The project, spanning four volumes on Toccata Classics, is an extension of Mr. Wnukowski's advocacy for music suppressed by the Nazi regime, and all of the works on Volume 1 appear on recording for the first time.

A longtime advocate for music suppressed by the Nazi regime, Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski (vnoo-koff'-skee) makes his New York debut this February as part of a festival dedicated to the music of Galician-Jewish composer Karol Rathaus (1895-1954). Little-known today, Rathaus was a protege of Franz Schreker and built a successful career in Berlin before fleeing in 1932 due to the deteriorating political situation in Germany. He first migrated to Paris, then to London in 1934. He settled in New York in 1938 and joined the music faculty of Queens College two years later as its first professor of composition.

Folks Operetta is proud to announce its upcoming concert Forbidden Opera: Reclaiming the lost operas of the Second World War, directed by Folks Operetta Artistic Director Gerald Frantzen and written by Frantzen and Hersh Glagov, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Dr. Skokie, IL.

Folks Operetta is proud to announce its 2018 season and a new fundraising campaign, The Korngold Initiative. All of these projects are part of their new Reclaimed Voices Series, which focuses on recovering and reviving the lost music of the Jewish composers of the Second World War. 

Jefferson Performing Arts Society presents Catch Me If You Can the Musical. Starring Anthony Harvey as Frank Abagnale Jr. Jimmy Murphy as Carl Hanratty Butch Caire as Frank Abagnale Sr. Melissa Hunter* as Paula Abagnale Christian Tarzetti as Brenda Strong Elizabeth Lowry as Carol Strong Warren Hovis as Roger Strong Abigail Gardner as Cheryl Ann John Michael Haas* as Agent Branton John Detty* as Agent Cod Eli Timm as Agent Dollar, Emily Bagwill, Isabella Baudry, Carrie Daigle, Jonathan Damare, John Detty*, Peter Elliot, Brandon Garza, Darren Hayes, Emily Heck, Taylor Thomas Hosemann, Jorden Majeau, Mandi Mueller, Katherine Nezames, Daniel Shevlin, Riley Tafaro, Christina Tichenor, Juliana Wagner, LG Williams

From the Academy Award-winning team comes a lushly scored retelling of Victor Hugo's epic story of love, acceptance and what it means to be a hero. A sweeping score by Alan Menken and powerful story make The Hunchback of Notre Dame an instant classic. Audiences of all ages will be swept away by the magic of this truly unforgettable musical.

From the Academy Award-winning team comes a lushly scored retelling of Victor Hugo's epic story of love, acceptance and what it means to be a hero. A sweeping score by Alan Menken and powerful story make The Hunchback of Notre Dame an instant classic. Audiences of all ages will be swept away by the magic of this truly unforgettable musical.

Dynamic Swedish composer, lyricist, vocalist & visual artist Sophie Dun r embarks on a US Mini Tour this December. Celebrating her most recent release, The City of Dizzy, a unique and darkly beautiful collaboration with cellist Jeremy Harman, Dun r will perform duos together on Friday, December 1st at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn at 9:30pm; then on to The Lilypad in Cambridge on Saturday, December 2nd at 7:30pm.

NEW CHAMBER BALLET PRESENTS 'STRAY BIRD , DANCED TRIBUTE TO COMPOSER URSULA MAMLOK. Thursday, October 5 at 7pm and 8:30pm, Friday, October 6 at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. German Academy New York, 1014 Fifth Avenue (bet. 82 & 83 Streets). Free admission, but advance reservations required at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stray-bird-tickets-36954471820